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I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim. — Rory Stewart

His hand is firm and warm, and somehow, big as it is, it fits with mine. — Jennifer Niven

Unlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest. — Rory Stewart

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty. — Rory Stewart

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. — Deepak Chopra

Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day. — Rory Stewart

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. — Rory Stewart

I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan. — Rory Stewart

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea. — Rory Stewart

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. — William Lyon Phelps

Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever — Rory Stewart

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow. — Rory Stewart

If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many. — Rory Stewart

The owl loves its nest in the ruins, The Huma revels in making kings, The falcon will not leave the King's hand, And the wagtail pleads weakness.2 — Rory Stewart

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map. — Rory Stewart

I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London. — Rory Stewart

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family. — Rory Stewart

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. — George Bernard Shaw

I wondered if walking was not a form of dancing. — Rory Stewart

you had to have happiness to miss happiness! — Eric Jerome Dickey

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable. — Rory Stewart

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. — Rory Stewart

Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map. — Rory Stewart

My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me. — Rory Stewart

Despite the dubious statistics ... democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting. — Rory Stewart

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context. — Rory Stewart

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong. — Christina Aguilera

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition. — Rory Stewart

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do. — Rory Stewart

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation. — Rory Stewart

Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow. — Catherine McAuley

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state. — Molly Crabapple

Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes. — Rory Stewart

Not to love God is to be a puppet — Sunday Adelaja

Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero. — Rory Stewart